Democratic Secretary of State candidate, Debra Bowen has released a new video ad on her campaign website showing how easy it would be for hackers to break into a garage where pre-programmed, election-ready Diebold touch-screen systems are now being "stored securely" by poll workers around the state.

Such a break-in could allow them to easily manipulate a single Diebold touch-screen machine to implant a virus on it would could then pass itself from machine to machine, resulting in an entirely flipped election. Nobody would ever know.

We have long since been critical of CA Sec. of State Bruce McPherson's re-certification of Diebold voting systems after his own technical advisory board at UC Berkley had advised him the machines could be tampered with in dozens of ways.

His further lack of enforcement of security requirements for the use of the systems --- he has sat by and allowed them to be sent home for weeks ahead of the election with poll workers on so-called "sleepovers" --- is both an outrage and a violation of his own state requirements and federal law.

Yesterday, we detailed (with photographs) how San Diego County Registrar Mikel Haas has been handing thousands of such hackable voting machines to poll workers in his county since October 16th of this year. Those irresponsible "sleepovers" now allow those poll workers --- or anyone who may wish to access the machines in their garage --- a full 3 weeks prior to the election to find the 60 seconds needed to flip every race in San Diego County.

Come on Brad, and you think the security key and bit to bit checksum will not identify any wrong doing? Break in all you want, but actually accomplishing anything not detectable is exactly what your readers fail to understand.

And check out this image of the kind of "I voted" sticker I got when I turned in my ABSENTEE BALLOT in to the San Diego Registrar of Voters office this morning! WHY is Mikel Haas doing Diebold's advertising work for them? Someone should investigate his finances. I certainly hope they aren't taking my absentee ballot and entering it in on a "vote flipping" TSX where I have to rely on them to "correct" any such problems of vote flipping that might happen! Sheesh!